Posts Tagged ‘MS Dhoni’
2010 IPL Diary: The competition heats up
Match day 24 of the 2010 IPL will go down as the marker when people look back as the turning point of the race for the semi-finals. At the start of the day no one expected so, and rightly, for the first game was between Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab. Given all factors plus the fact that the match was being played at the Eden Gardens, [...]
India announce team for 2010 T20 World Cup
The Indian squad for the T20 World Cup in the West Indies has been announced and the fifteen names chosen are on expected lines. Squad: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, [...]
2010 IPL: Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Chennai Super Kings
Robin Uthappa (68 off 38 balls) took Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 36- run victory over the Chennai Super Kings in Match 18 of the IPL 2010 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Royal Challengers rattled up 171/5 and then contained Chennai Super Kings for 135/7 in 20 overs. Orange Cap holder Jacques Kallis looked shaky today. His run-spree [...]
2010 IPL Diary: poor captaincy and a mongoose bat
The IPL encounter between Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings was rightly billed as a contest to see which side would blink first. The reasoning behind this being the absence of respective skippers of the two sides – Gautam Gambhir out with a hamstring problem and MS Dhoni injured in the last game that Chennai played. Inadvertently the [...]
2010 IPL: Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Daredevils
Chasing 186 for victory, Chennai Super Kings scored 190/5 in 19.1 overs. Both Delhi and Chennai were without their regular captains Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni as Dinesh Karthik and Suresh Raina played stand-ins. Virender Sehwag (74 off 38 balls) gave a sparkling start to Delhi even as he lost Australian explosive opener David Warner who came [...]
2010 IPL Diary: parking chaos and week-in-review
This post is coming a bit late but I guess better that than never. I guess it was the same story with regards to the Mumbai Indians versus Delhi Daredevils match – my first ‘official’ visit to the press box at the Feroz Shah Kotla. I intended to reach early and I did – at 6.30 pm. But that was just the beginning as for the next ninety [...]
2010 IPL: Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed a superb 33-ball 66 (6x4, 3x6) to guide the Chennai Super Kings to a 55- run win over the Kolkata Knight Riders in match eight of the IPL 2010 at Eden Gardens. Dhoni and his unbeaten 109 runs partnership in 10.5 overs with S Badrinath (43, 33 balls, 3x4) helped lift the Chennai Super Kings to a respectable [...]
IPL 2010: Chennai Super Kings Preview
2009 Records: Semi-finalists 2008 Record: Runners-Up Squad: MS Dhoni (captain & wicket-keeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Hemang Badani, Subramaniam Badrinath, George Bailey, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Chandrasekhar Ganapathy, Manpreet Singh Gony, Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Shadab Jakati, Arun Kartik, Justin Kemp, Albie Morkel, Muttiah [...]
A satisfying season
With the ODI series win against South Africa, a highly satisfying season for the Indian cricket team has come to an end. It has been one of many highs and some disappointing lows. Wining the tri-series in Sri Lanka while playing on poorly prepared pitches was an ideal start, though that waned off when Champions Trophy in South Africa and the ODI [...]
